This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drivers/libata: Set max sector to 65535 for Slimtype DVD A DS8A9SH drive to the 3.10-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drivers-libata-set-max-sector-to-65535-for-slimtype-dvd-a-ds8a9sh-drive.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0523f037f65dba10191b0fa9c51266f90ba64630 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:08:01 +0800 Subject: drivers/libata: Set max sector to 65535 for Slimtype DVD A DS8A9SH drive From: Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 0523f037f65dba10191b0fa9c51266f90ba64630 upstream. The "Slimtype DVD A DS8A9SH" drive locks up with following backtrace when the max sector is smaller than 65535 bytes, fix it by adding a quirk to set the max sector to 65535 bytes. INFO: task flush-11:0:663 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. flush-11:0 D 00000000ffff5ceb 0 663 2 0x00000000 ffff88026d3b1710 0000000000000046 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 ffff88026f2530c0 ffff88026d365860 ffff88026d3b16e0 ffffffff812ffd52 ffff88026d4fd3d0 0000000100000001 ffff88026d3b16f0 ffff88026d3b1fd8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812ffd52>] ? cfq_may_queue+0x52/0xf0 [<ffffffff81604338>] schedule+0x18/0x30 [<ffffffff81604392>] io_schedule+0x42/0x60 [<ffffffff812f22bb>] get_request_wait+0xeb/0x1f0 [<ffffffff81065660>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff812eb382>] ? elv_merge+0x42/0x210 [<ffffffff812f26ae>] __make_request+0x8e/0x4e0 [<ffffffff812f068e>] generic_make_request+0x21e/0x5e0 [<ffffffff812f0aad>] submit_bio+0x5d/0xd0 [<ffffffff81141422>] submit_bh+0xf2/0x130 [<ffffffff8114474c>] __block_write_full_page+0x1dc/0x3a0 [<ffffffff81143f60>] ? end_buffer_async_write+0x0/0x120 [<ffffffff811474e0>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x70 [<ffffffff811474e0>] ? blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x70 [<ffffffff81143f60>] ? end_buffer_async_write+0x0/0x120 [<ffffffff811449ee>] block_write_full_page_endio+0xde/0x100 [<ffffffff81144a20>] block_write_full_page+0x10/0x20 [<ffffffff81148703>] blkdev_writepage+0x13/0x20 [<ffffffff810d7525>] __writepage+0x15/0x40 [<ffffffff810d7c0f>] write_cache_pages+0x1cf/0x3e0 [<ffffffff810d7510>] ? __writepage+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff810d7e42>] generic_writepages+0x22/0x30 [<ffffffff810d7e6f>] do_writepages+0x1f/0x40 [<ffffffff8113ae67>] writeback_single_inode+0xe7/0x3b0 [<ffffffff8113b574>] writeback_sb_inodes+0x184/0x280 [<ffffffff8113bedb>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x6b/0x1a0 [<ffffffff8113c24b>] wb_writeback+0x23b/0x2a0 [<ffffffff8113c42d>] wb_do_writeback+0x17d/0x190 [<ffffffff8113c48b>] bdi_writeback_task+0x4b/0xe0 [<ffffffff810e82a0>] ? bdi_start_fn+0x0/0x100 [<ffffffff810e8321>] bdi_start_fn+0x81/0x100 [<ffffffff810e82a0>] ? bdi_start_fn+0x0/0x100 [<ffffffff8106522e>] kthread+0x8e/0xa0 [<ffffffff81039274>] ? finish_task_switch+0x54/0xc0 [<ffffffff81003334>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 [<ffffffff810651a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 [<ffffffff81003330>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 The above trace was triggered by "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sr0 bs=2048 count=32768" Signed-off-by: Shan Hai <shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/ata/libata-core.c +++ b/drivers/ata/libata-core.c @@ -4110,6 +4110,7 @@ static const struct ata_blacklist_entry { "TORiSAN DVD-ROM DRD-N216", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_128 }, { "QUANTUM DAT DAT72-000", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_ATAPI_MOD16_DMA }, { "Slimtype DVD A DS8A8SH", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_LBA48 }, + { "Slimtype DVD A DS8A9SH", NULL, ATA_HORKAGE_MAX_SEC_LBA48 }, /* Devices we expect to fail diagnostics */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shan.hai@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/drivers-libata-set-max-sector-to-65535-for-slimtype-dvd-a-ds8a9sh-drive.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html